Hugh Laurie

It alarms me to think of all that I have read and how little of it has stayed with me.

— Hugh Laurie

This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed.

— Hugh Laurie

Believe it or not, perhaps I don't show it much, or well, but I think I like people.

— Hugh Laurie

It doesn't rain at all in California. Once a month, a man drives through spraying Evian.

— Hugh Laurie

You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.

— Hugh Laurie

“I said no thank you a dozen times, and fuck off once.”

— Hugh Laurie

There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now.

— Hugh Laurie

I feel like I'm working on an oil rig right now. I'm away from home a lot.

— Hugh Laurie

Now, my mom always said two wrongs don't make a right. But she never said anything about four wrongs, and that always…

— Hugh Laurie

We put this 15-year old girl on the cover of a fashion magazine, and tell everyone she is the epitome of sexual…

— Hugh Laurie

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

— Hugh Laurie

“Americans have never really caught on to the idea of eating sheep. I think they think it's cissy.”

— Hugh Laurie

Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless

— Hugh Laurie

LA runs on optimism, enthusiasm and flattery. I think you can go a little bit crazy... It's just too damn sunny in…

— Hugh Laurie

I have always stuck up for Western medicine. You can chew all the celery you want, but without antibiotics, three quarters of…

— Hugh Laurie

I would just hear piano players and I would hear music, and just think - I don't just want to sit here…

— Hugh Laurie

I'm finding it increasingly difficult to simply walk down the street. In New York, I dashed in to buy a big pair…

— Hugh Laurie

I think of House as a deeply moral character, though some would no doubt argue with me. He does not judge. Beyond…

— Hugh Laurie

“There weren’t many good things to be said or felt about my situation. Not many at all. But the rule is that…

— Hugh Laurie

To me, he's a hero, ... He's not polite. He's not someone you want to take home to meet your mother, necessarily.…

— Hugh Laurie

I know a lot of people think therapy is about sitting around staring at your own navel - but it's staring at…

— Hugh Laurie

People assume that I'm very highly trained, that I studied and did years and years of Shakespeare. I have no training whatsoever…

— Hugh Laurie

“I started to think of friends I could lean on for some help, but, as always happened when I attempted this kind…

— Hugh Laurie

Boxing is fascinating. It's good for the soul to be made to feel clumsy. I swank around during the week thinking I'm…

— Hugh Laurie

“There once was a man who went to see a psychiatrist, crippled by a fear of flying. His phobia was based on…

— Hugh Laurie

Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the…

— Hugh Laurie

I was shown into a room. A red room. Red wallpaper, red curtains, red carpet. They said it was a sitting-room, but…

— Hugh Laurie

“Then there are the books that shine in my memory, milestones along the horizontal course of my life. I remember not just…

— Hugh Laurie

I do have a huge problem, a huge problem. In fact, worse than watching is hearing. I cannot stand to hear my…

— Hugh Laurie

“We want different things. Men want to have sex with a woman. Then they want to have sex with another woman. And…

— Hugh Laurie

“The sexual mechanisms of the two genders are just not compatible, that’s the horrible truth of it. (...) This is a truth…

— Hugh Laurie

“I didn’t really know the answer to this myself, but saying that wasn’t going to get me off the hook. I started…

— Hugh Laurie

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

— Hugh Laurie

I've never been clever with money. I will buy anything at the top of the market.

— Hugh Laurie

I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.

— Hugh Laurie

Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.

— Hugh Laurie

Having a vote once every four years is not the same thing as democracy.

— Hugh Laurie

Happiness is the twinkle in your grandmother's eye as you reverse the tractor off her legs.

— Hugh Laurie

Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.

— Hugh Laurie

“I think you're a dangerous, corrupt, lying piece of nine-day-old mosquito shit.”

— Hugh Laurie